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Tim Green KC
Position
Tim Green has been recognised by both Chambers UK and Legal 500 for 13 years as one of the Bar’s outstanding advocates in regulatory crime and corporate defence work. His practice includes investigations into companies and their officers arising from: (1) death or severe injury at work; (2) inquests and inquiries; (3) complex and high value financial wrongdoing. Clients include most of the ranked law firms in these fields, as well as multi-national manufacturers, financial institutions, company officers, off-shore regulators and governments.
Career
Tim is an exceptional trial advocate with experience before juries and appellate courts. In the past 4 years Tim has been instructed for the defence in the largest ever corporate manslaughter investigation and over fifty investigations, public inquiries and inquests arising from death or severe injury at work including three recent appellate cases HSE v Evergreen, HSE v John Henry, ESFRS v St Michael’s Hospice. Tim has particular experience of workplace investigations in the following sectors: construction, healthcare, residential and social care, waste, maritime, technology, defence, and manufacturing. He is a regular speaker for HSLA. Since Tim’s success in the leading environmental waste authority of EA v Thorn International Limited, he has been widely acknowledged as an expert in environmental law. He regularly advises exceptionally large private and public undertakings on their response to EA investigations, civil undertakings, applications under POCA and has experience bringing private prosecutions for Water Utilities.
Tim’s inquiry and inquest work includes representing a leading insulation manufacturer in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the HSE in the Covid Inquiry, as well as numerous A2 and jury inquests arising from deaths at work, suicide, and deaths in custody.
Recent financial investigations instructions include a complex and large scale off-shore tax fraud, money laundering and perjury (Operation B); instructions from the TpR in the leading pensions enforcement appellate authority of Workchain; and from the FCA in perimeter enforcement.
Publications
Co-edits “The Proceeds of Crime” OUP; Contributor to Lexis Nexis Encyclopaedia of Financial Services Regulation.
Memberships
Financial Services Lawyers Association; Fraud Lawyers Association; Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association; Health and Safety Lawyer’s Association; UK Environmental Lawyers Association; Midland Circuit; Attorney General’s A Panel of regulatory counsel (as a junior).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Proceeds of crime (POCA) and asset forfeiture
(2022 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Tim Green KC –Henderson Chambers ‘Tim is a natural communicator, and has a fantastic ability to provide clear and succulent legal advice.’
London Bar > Health and safety
(2022 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Tim Green KC –Henderson Chambers ‘Tim is a class act. He knows the legislation backwards and is always up to date with the latest case law.‘
(2022 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Tim Green KC – Henderson Chambers ‘Tim is a key figure in the field of health and safety and leads from the front. His strength is in bringing forward the juniors in the chambers and giving them exposure in order to gain experience.’
Henderson Chambers is reputed for established expertise in fatal and serious injury trials and HSE prosecutions. Prashant Popat continues to be instructed on behalf of many large UK organisations and companies, such as National Highways, and was recently instructed by Siemens in a Health and Safety at Work Act prosecution following a fatality at a rail depot. Expert for corporate manslaughter prosecutions Oliver Campbell KC has been representing Branston Site Services in HSE v Tarmac and Branston Site Services, a high-profile prosecution arising out of a fatal accident in the largest quarry in the country. Tim Green KC is prosecuting for the HSE in a case arising from the death of a construction worker whilst unloading glass from pallets.
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(2022 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Tim Green KC –Henderson Chambers ‘Tim is extremely approachable. He has an excellent manner with clients and coroners, and is able to gain the confidence and trust of both. He handles witnesses perfectly in what are often very difficult and emotionally charged situations.’